Creating a plugin for limiting the number of articles

[pablovaleriopolonia]

Hi

I have created a plugin to create a limit for the number of articles that an author can submit(to provide a conference especific feature).

The plugin must be called on the first step of the submission process, so i registed it on the hook "presentersubmitform::Constructor" (created dynamically on the Form.inc.php class).

To show an error message on the form i called the "addError" function and after that i called "validate" to display the error message, but it didn't worked because "validate" uses some class attributes that are created after the plugin is called.

To make this work I've made a workaround, putting the variables before the hook is called:

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$this->_template = $template;
      $this->_data = array();
      $this->_checks = array();
      $this->_errors = array();
      $this->errorsArray = array();
      $this->errorFields = array();
      
      if ($callHooks === true && checkPhpVersion('4.3.0')) {
         $trace = debug_backtrace();
         // Call hooks based on the calling entity, assuming
         // this method is only called by a subclass. Results
         // in hook calls named e.g. "articlegalleyform::Constructor"
         // Note that class names are always lower case.
         HookRegistry::call(strtolower($trace[1]['class']) . '::Constructor', array(&$this, &$template));
      }

Is there another way to do what i want? (without changing the OCS base code), or the code I've changed is a valid contribution to the project?

Thanks

Pablo Valério Polônia

[pablovaleriopolonia]

Hi

I found a way to do that without changing any code on the Form class, I found a hook on the TemplateManager class, which is called every time a template is displayed, i registered the plugin on it, and assigned the error array to the template on the callback function when the correct template is called.

Thank you

Pablo Valério Polônia